“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
More from Jodi Picoult on Love
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
“I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.”
“The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.”
“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”
“You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”
“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”
“Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.”
“At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.”
“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
“Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“From the moment I saw her I knew this onewas worththebroken heart.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Rumi
14 quotes“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
John Donne
14 quotes“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
Balzac
13 quotes“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”